Scientist (Cell Culture and Molecular Cloning) at Altimmune in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Job Description:

Altimmune (NASDAQ: ALT) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing intranasal vaccines, immune modulating therapies and treatments for liver disease. Our diverse pipeline includes proprietary intranasal vaccines for COVID-19 (AdCOVID), anthrax (NasoShield) and influenza (NasoVAX); an intranasal immune modulating treatment for COVID-19 (T-COVID); and next generation peptide therapeutics for NASH (ALT-801) and chronic hepatitis B (HepTcell). For more information on Altimmune, please visit www.altimmune.com.

Job Description: The Scientist will join R&D teams to support studies in the areas of new product development and existing product support. He/she will focus on mammalian cell culture and molecular biology. This position reports to the Director, Discovery Research.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for maintaining cultures of frequently used suspension and adherent cell lines.
• Responsible for plasmid cloning, transformation, amplification, and purification.
• Responsible for general molecular biological techniques and assays.
• Responsible for Adenoviral vector infection, viral titer measurement, and viral stock maintenance.
• Uses established protocols and applies technical standards, principles, and techniques to the execution of scientific studies with moderate supervision.
• Documents experimental design, details, and results in a laboratory notebook.

General Responsibilities:

• Write protocols and reports to accurately capture studies and data.
• Establish and follow all research lab standard operating procedures and safety procedures.
• Understand and work within the appropriate level of regulatory compliance in the execution of work responsibilities.
• Contribute scientific concepts and potential solutions to problems related to vaccine development.

• The candidate must be self-motivated and work equally well as an individual and part of a team.
• BS with 3-5 years or MS with 0-2 years relevant industry experience or a combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Experience in mammalian cell culture and aseptic technique is required.
• Experience in PCR, ELISA, and molecular cloning is preferred.

Altimmune provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.